A cartographic analysis of Shi and Lian…Dou in Mandarin Chinese

Shi and lian … dou/ye can both be used as focus constructions in Mandarin Chinese. The current paper aims to investigate the shi and lian … dou/ye constructions within the framework of Syntactic Cartography. The two constructions share very similar syntactic distributions; however, shi and lian are...

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Main Authors: Longming Shichuan, Yu Fu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Taylor & Francis Group 2022-12-01
Series:Cogent Arts & Humanities
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Online Access:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23311983.2022.2127225